About

Margie Newman is an award-winning PR flack, community connector and tireless advocate for using technology and social media as productivity tools to make you the smartest person in the room. They are pretty good resources for a successful public relations campaign, too.

During the day, Margie is a media relations manager and digital strategist for a D.C.-based non-profit policy shop.

Nights and weekends, she is a social media guinea pig and head cheerleader for the technologically curious. From 2008–2011, she doled out advice, pep talks and how-to’s via her monthly “Chic Geek” productivity and new media column for Her Nashville magazine.

Here on FlackRabbit.com, she shares her musings on the public relations industry, unsolicited career advice and links to random geek stuff.

A former press aide to Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, Margie began her career serving as assistant for communications to Bredesen after his 2002 election, and later, as communications director for the Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation, which developed Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program in all 95 Tennessee counties.

After a brief stint in internal communications at Healthways, Inc. (HWAY), Margie spent two years as a Principle at Nashville-based public relations firm, Hall Strategies, where she managed PR and media relations for clients including the Nashville Predators hockey franchise, Urban Child Institute, Smoke-Free Tennessee campaign, MTSU Political Poll, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, and Southern Festival of Books.

In 2008, she recognized for her innovative uses of social media and was named among the PR News Top 15 to Watch, a national award honoring 15 budding PR leaders and creative practitioners age 30 and under. Later that year, Margie was profiled as a Nashville Business Journal “Rising Star.”

Margie is a graduate of Auburn University (War Eagle!). While living in Nashville, Margie was a Junior Achievement volunteer, and served on the boards of the Nashville Adult Literacy Council and the Nashville Downtown Partnership. In 2011, Margie was named to the board of the Washington Women in Public Relations (WWPR).

A Nashville native, Margie now lives, works and wears cowboy boots in Washington, D.C. with her talented husband and tea cup poodle. A natural connector who never meets a stranger, she is the founder and organizer of the DC Flacks and Nashville Flacks happy hour and networking series through Meetup.com.